Biography

Félix Gómez was born in Murcia Spain, on February 26th 1983.

He carried out his Primary Education in the Public School Infante Don Juan Manuel and then attended the Secondary School Saavedra Fajardo, where he fulfilled his Secondary Education.

In the year 2001-2002 he started his degree in Computer Science Engineering at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Murcia, which he concluded in the year 2005-2006 with an academic record that rewarded him with the "Honourable Mention to the Academic Excellence".

It is worth mentioning that the last year of his degree was developed at the School of Computer and Telematic Sciences of the University of Granada in 2005-2006, by means of a 9-months SICUE stay and with a SÉNECA scholarship granted by the Spanish Education and Science Ministry.

In the year 2006-2007 he carried out the postgraduate studies leading to the master’s degree of "Master in Advanced Information and Telematic Technologies" with a Quality Mention by the Spanish Education and Science Ministry. Moreover, during that year he also worked for the Applied Communications and Information Technologies Area of the University of Murcia, within the CYUM group, in the FaCTo project for Teléfonica Móviles.

On June 21st, 2010 he presented his PhD Thesis developed within the Department of Information and Communications Engineering of the University of Murcia, under the supervision of Dr Gregorio Martínez Pérez, and awarded with a FPI research grant (Research Teacher Training) by the Séneca Foundation in the Region of Murcia. In January 2011, he received the Best PhD Thesis Award from the School of Computer Science of the University of Murcia.

From his first scholarship year he has written several publications (papers in journals, conferences, book chapters, etc.), he has been TPC member and guest editor in several journals and international conferences, he has carried out several academic training courses, he has been teacher of several subjects, he has developed several training courses and he has been incorporated into several teaching innovation projects and researching ones.

Since September 1st, 2008 until February 28th, 2009 he did a research internship at NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg (Germany), under the supervision of Joao Girao and Amardeo Sarma, for 6 months. Such internship was supported by a grant of the Séneca Foundation. Since September 14th 2009, until March 13th, 2010 he performed a second internship in the same institution, this time under the supervision of Christoph Sorge and Amardeo Sarma, with a total duration of another 6 months. This second internship was supported as well by a grant of the Séneca Foundation.

He is currently working at NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg (Germany), within the security group, since November 2010.